We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly… — Jonathan D. Morris Copy Share Image
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. I would say that there are many individuals in the Church… — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live… Our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Developing characters is a collective process, on one hand; it's an individual process on the other. The truth is rarely pure and… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being,… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that?… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay,… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible… — Joleon Lescott Copy Share Image
Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image